This month’s reading picks focus on the habits that support learning and the small changes that can make getting back into a routine a little easier, just as a new school year has started in many...
Since starting this column I’ve seen some really great book adaptations, but as a rule of thumb I usually find the books to be (even just marginally) better than their film or TV adaptations. Films...
What happens when the person you thought you would spend the rest of your life with drops an unexpected bombshell that brings everything to an end? In her new book, Hungry Love, Tomiko Diaz explores...
The world has become a very fast place to live. I think I was roughly plodding along pretty well with the internet as it was, but the speed of AI has frightened me. Not the speed of its widespread...
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don't want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read /...
I was a very girly-girl when I was small. I grew up on fairy tales, usually read to me by my dad, and imagined myself as every princess I heard about. I adored those stories, and it was only as an...
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don't want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read /...
This month over at Five Books For, I’m looking at books that explore the Holocaust from different angles. As living memory recedes, I’ve been thinking about the particular value of literature in...
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don't want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read /...
July brings an interesting coincidence to the literary calendar: just three days (and 22 years) apart, Alexandre Dumas père and Alexandre Dumas fils were born, two writers who shared not only a last...
